From Cute to Brute
Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged
At end of combat, if Kytheon, Hero of Akros and at least two other creatures attacked this combat, exile Kytheon, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
{2}{W}: Kytheon gains indestructible until end of turn.
+2: Up to one target creature an opponent controls attacks Gideon, Battle-Forged during its controller's next turn if able.
+1: Until your next turn, target creature gains indestructible. Untap that creature.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon, Battle-Forged becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
When Legion's Landing enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
When you attack with three or more creatures, transform Legion's Landing.
"I claim this land in the name of the queen."
—Adrian Adanto of Lujio
(Transforms from Legion's Landing.)
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder
Whenever an opponent attacks one or more planeswalkers you control, put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.
Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
+1: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. If a creature card was discarded this way, draw two cards instead.
−2: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of your next upkeep.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, it deals damage equal to its power to any target."
Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
Destroy all nonland permanents.
"At first rumble you'd best hold on tight and pray to any gods you still hold dear."
—Nys Dal, Sea Gate trapfinder
Ondu Skyruins enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
"It always seems so quiet in the aftermath of wrenching violence."
—Nys Dal, Sea Gate trapfinder
Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow
Flying, vigilance
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
"You are so much stronger than you know."
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature, then Embrose, Dean of Shadow deals 2 damage to that creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain gets +1/+1 for each color among other legendary permanents you control.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Search your library for a legendary permanent card with mana value less than Sisay's power, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Urza's Ruinous Blast
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Exile all nonland permanents that aren't legendary.
Centuries ago, one man's vengeance plunged the world into ice and darkness.
Zetalpa, Primal Dawn
Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible
The sky takes flight and the earth trembles.
Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile Cosima. If you do, it gains "Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if Cosima is exiled, you may put a voyage counter on it. If you don't, return Cosima to the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it and draw X cards, where X is the number of voyage counters on it."
Whenever a Vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library. You may play lands from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled.
Crew 1
Diluvian Primordial
Flying
When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
"People's thoughts just come to me. Sometimes I don't know if it's them or me thinking."
+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn.
−3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent mills five cards."
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.
(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Sphinx of the Second Sun
Flying
At the beginning of your postcombat main phase, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)
He watches in silence as the shadows shift, bringing Amonkhet ever nearer to the Hour of Revelation.
Butcher of Malakir
Flying
Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.
His verdict is always guilty. His sentence is always death.
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.
"Din, turn around! Now!"
—Doros, expedition guide
Hagra Broodpit enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
"I think we somehow got turned around."
—Doros, expedition guide
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.
"Life is as fleeting as it is vibrant. Embrace the brief blessing of a flower before it withers."
Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
When Valki enters the battlefield, each opponent reveals their hand. For each opponent, exile a creature card they revealed this way until Valki leaves the battlefield.
{X}: Choose a creature card exiled with Valki with mana value X. Valki becomes a copy of that card.
As Tibalt enters the battlefield, you get an emblem with "You may play cards exiled with Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells."
+2: Exile the top card of each player's library.
−3: Exile target artifact or creature.
−8: Exile all graveyards. Add {R}{R}{R}.
Voldaren Pariah // Abolisher of Bloodlines
Flying
Sacrifice three other creatures: Transform Voldaren Pariah.
Madness {B}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Flying
When this creature transforms into Abolisher of Bloodlines, target opponent sacrifices three creatures.
Even if the rain turned to blood, her thirst would not be slaked.
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame
Whenever you cast a red spell, untap Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh.
{T}: Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. If Chandra has dealt 3 or more damage this turn, exile her, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control.
+1: Chandra, Roaring Flame deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
−2: Chandra, Roaring Flame deals 2 damage to target creature.
−7: Chandra, Roaring Flame deals 6 damage to each opponent. Each player dealt damage this way gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 3 damage to you."
Plargg, Dean of Chaos // Augusta, Dean of Order
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{4}{R}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary, nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Other tapped creatures you control get +1/+0.
Other untapped creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever you attack, untap each creature you control, then tap any number of creatures you control.
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
Put any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library, then draw that many cards plus one.
"My ancestors reshaped the world to their vision. I have a few ideas of my own."
—Tars Olan, stoneforge mystic
Valakut Stoneforge enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
"I can hear the echo of their hammers, long stilled."
—Tars Olan, stoneforge mystic
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
"Always have a backup plan."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide
Bala Ged Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
"I know it's around here somewhere."
—Doral, Bala Ged guide
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion."
—Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."
Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed
When Garruk Relentless has two or fewer loyalty counters on him, transform him.
0: Garruk Relentless deals 3 damage to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to him.
0: Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.
+1: Create a 1/1 black Wolf creature token with deathtouch.
−1: Sacrifice a creature. If you do, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Guardian Project
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.
Simic's strength comes from its diversity.
Harmonize
Draw three cards.
"Animals commune with their environment without the need for language. Theirs is a fundamental connection that surpasses flimsy words."
—Vivien Reid
Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 green Cat creature token.
{4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
"Humans bring nothing but suffering and deceit. They are not welcome in my forest."
Kolvori, God of Kinship // The Ringhart Crest
As long as you control three or more legendary creatures, Kolvori gets +4/+2 and has vigilance.
{1}{G}, {T}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
As The Ringhart Crest enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {G}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or a legendary creature spell.
Kolvori's love for her family knows no bounds.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control.
+1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
−2: Create Ashaya, the Awoken World, a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token.
−7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Tireless Provisioner
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Tovolar's Huntmaster // Tovolar's Packleader
When Tovolar's Huntmaster enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens.
Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)
"Do you smell that, friends? Fear and despair."
Whenever Tovolar's Packleader enters the battlefield or attacks, create two 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens.
{2}{G}{G}: Another target Wolf or Werewolf you control fights target creature you don't control.
Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)
Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
+1: Until end of turn, up to one target creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance and haste.
0: Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Transform Arlinn Kord.
+1: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
−1: Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon deals 3 damage to any target. Transform Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon.
−6: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have haste and '{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.'"
Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury
Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast creature spells as though they had flash, and each creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
−3: Create two 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens.
Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)
+2: Add {R}{G}.
0: Until end of turn, Arlinn, the Moon's Fury becomes a 5/5 Werewolf creature with trample, indestructible, and haste.
Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition
Lifelink
Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.
Disturb {2}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Flying
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into graveyards from anywhere, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
If Dennick, Pious Apparition would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
Whenever Emmara, Soul of the Accord becomes tapped, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.
"Whatever hatred destroys, a single act of trust can revive."
Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if that creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform Hadana's Climb.
Hadana seeks power in the service of peace.
(Transforms from Hadana's Climb.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}{G}{U}, {T}: Target creature you control gains flying and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.
Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
Enchant creature you control
When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control, then return Journey to Eternity to the battlefield transformed under your control.
Every journey has its inevitable end . . .
(Transforms from Journey to Eternity.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{3}{B}{G}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
. . . but every end is a new beginning.
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Whenever you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced.
{5}{G}{U}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris
Whenever Ludevic, Necrogenius enters the battlefield or attacks, mill a card.
{X}{U}{U}{B}{B}, Exile X creature cards from your graveyard: Transform Ludevic. X can't be 0. Activate only as a sorcery.
As this creature transforms into Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, it becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with it, except its name is Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, it's 4/4, and it's a legendary blue and black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Olag equal to the number of creature cards exiled with it.
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer
Time Wipe
Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.
"To comprehend the full answer requires years of temporal study. In short, they were now never born in the first place."
—Teferi
Utter End
Exile target nonland permanent.
"I came seeking a challenge. All I found was you."
—Zurgo, khan of the Mardu
Altar of the Pantheon
Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.
Arcane Signet
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
It started as a mere drop of water. The Magic Mirror crystallized it into much more.
Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun
{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.
(Transforms from Azor's Gateway.)
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is your life total.
As soon as Jace laid eyes on the great sphinx's chamber, the shards of memory began sliding into place.
